Family/Spouse: Jane Roselle FORMYDUVAL. Jane was born about 1811; died about Jan 1859. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Abigail Jane MOORE. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Moore Lennon and Dennis Lennon, Jr., had a saw mill, which was, according to Yates Lennon of Wilmington, North Carolina, father of Senator and Congressman Alton Lennon, the first in the South. Yates Lennon said when he was a boy, he saw corn ground, lumber sawed, and rice beat out all at one time in this old saw mill building. Moore and Dennis Lennon, Jr., had the first houses made of lumber in their section of Bladen County, built from lumber sawed at their mill. The old mill was build of 10"x10" and 12"x12" timbers. The Lennons grew mulberry trees for their silk worms to feed off and spun their own silk.

Dennis Lennon, Jr., owned a toll bridge over the Big Swamp. Although there is a modern bridge there now, it is still known as Lennon's Bridge. He and Epenatus Griffin gave the land for the Baptist Church of Christ at Cross Roads in January 1838.

Dennis married Sarah BROWN on 25 Dec 1800 in Bladen County, North Carolina. Sarah (daughter of William BROWN and Anne MNU) was born on 17 May 1779; died on 25 May 1858 in Bladen County, North Carolina; was buried in Lennon Cemetery, Bladen County, North Carolina. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

1784 Bladen tax roll shows 600 acres, 1/2 town lot, one white poll, and five black polls. 1788 tax list with 847 acres one white poll, three black polls. (Spelled "Linnen" in 1790 census) 1790 census shows one white male 16 and older, three white males below 16, two white females, and seven slaves.

Dennis married Experience BROWDER. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Anne MNU. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Anne MOORE in 1741. Anne (daughter of Joseph MOORE and Mary UNKNOWN) was born about 1720 in Cape Fear, Bladen, North Carolina; died in in Bladen County, North Carolina. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]